Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea.

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That was the first sound in the song of love! Scarce more than silence is, and yet a sound. Hands of invisible spirits touch the strings Of that mysterious instrument, the soul, And play the prelude of our fate. We hear The voice prophetic, and are not alone.

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An angel visited the green earth, and took a flower away.

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Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice.

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Look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger.

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The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature -were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature.

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Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

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Youth comes but once a life time. Perhaps, but it remains strong in many for their entire lives.

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O flower-de-luce, bloom on, and let the river Linger to kiss thy feet! O flower of song, bloom on, and make forever The world more fair and sweet.

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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

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God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness.

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The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart, When the full river of feeling overflows;- The happy days unclouded to their close; The sudden joys that our of darkness start As flames from ashes; swift desires that dart Like swallows singing down each wind that blows!

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I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it.

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Love is a bodily shape; and Christian works are no more than animate faith and love, as flowers are the animate springtide.

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What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter, months, years, centuries-these are but arbitrary and outward signs, the measure of Time, not Time itself. Time is the Life of the Soul.

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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

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More and more do I feel, as I advance in life, how little we really know of each other. Friendship seems to me like the touch of musical-glasses--it is only contact; but the glasses themselves, and their contents, remain quite distinct and unmingled.

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Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!

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A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

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The air of summer was sweeter than wine.

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